An Overview of Community Policing: Origins, Concepts and Implementation

The Handbook of Knowledge-Based Policing: Current Conceptions and Future Directions

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 43-57

  Skogan, Wesley G ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community policing; Community policing citizen involvement, problem solving, decentralization; Community policing and inequitable outcome risk; Political economic systems and penal ideologies; Problem oriented policing and community policing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251615777     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470773215.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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